• SUPERIOR TURF QUALITY:Award scored an 8.4 average in overall turf quality over five growing seasons in Post Falls, Idaho and ranked in the top 5% at the Maryland trials. Award is a dense, very dark green Kentucky bluegrass variety selected for improved disease resistance and broad climatic persistence under varying management regimes.

DEVELOPMENT:Award began as one of the progeny of hybrid cross no. 89-1037. Two, high-performance, commercial bluegrass varieties (the identity of which will be kept confidential until the PVP application is filed) were hybridized in 1989. Plants with characters dissimilar to the mother plant were harvested in July, 1991, and established into turf plots in Post Falls, Idaho.